Mapping the frequency-magnitude distribution in asperities: An improved technique to calculate recurrence times?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B7, 1997, Pages 15115-15128

  Wiemer, Stefan ^a   Wyss, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FREQUENCY/MAGNITUDE; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; ROUGHNESS;

USA, CALIFORNIA;

EID: 0031450715     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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